[gcruse]

Thanks for the headsup. I googled up a review of Dean's book and it looks like it is mostly early bio and political, which isn't too surprising, I guess.

The thing with Harding, though, is the Harding family's legal clamp on correspondence between Harding and a woman in Ohio he was supposedly having an affair with, alongside Nan Britton whom he allegedly boffed in the White House, on a train, and out of town.

Unless the reviewer skipped all that, which I doubt, the Harding book is a dry as John Dean's demeanor. We want Mo!

[Verginius Rufus]

Dean talked about how as a boy he had delivered newspapers on the street where the Hardings had lived, so he must have grown up in Marion, Ohio, and that could be why he was sufficiently interested in Harding to write a book about him. He mentioned love letters Harding had written to another woman with whom he had had an affair...it is possible that Nan Britton never had an affair with Harding, but had access to those love letters and made up a story on the basis of what she had learned from them. The love letters didn't come to light until much later, and some material is still off-limits to researchers.